An AMBER alert has been issued after a 6-year-old boy is believed to have been abducted from Kerr County, Texas.
Kameron Parrish was last seen just before midday on Thursday at Ingram Elementary School, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which lists him as being missing since Wednesday.
Parrish has been described as having brown hair and blue eyes, being around 4 feet 8 inches tall, and weighing around 55 pounds.
Law enforcement officials believe the child to be in “grave or immediate danger,” per the report.
Flashing lights from an unmarked police vehicle in Texas. An AMBER alert has been issued after a six-year-old boy is thought to have been kidnapped from Kerr County, Texas.
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A female suspect has been identified by police as 32-year-old Talaya Graham, who has been described as having brown hair and green eyes, and being 5 feet 3 inches tall, and weighing around 175 pounds.
Her relationship to Parrish is unknown.
It was recorded that she was believed to be driving a Silver 2014 Nissan Versa bearing the Texas license plate TLS5425, and that she was last seen in Ingram.
Anyone with any information relating to this incident has been told to contact the Ingram Police Department.
Earlier this week, two children were recovered safely in Texas after an AMBER Alert was issued following a shooting in San Antonio.
The Texas children, 6-year-old Yaretzi Diaz and 2-year-old Gael Diaz were reported as having gone missing at 7 a.m. on Sunday following a shooting, according to local outlets, and were later found at a nearby home.
An AMBER alert is used when there is reasonable belief by law enforcement that a child has been kidnapped, and that the child is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death.
The system relies on the public to assist the search of the missing children.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children provided support for 49 AMBER alert cases in Texas in 2023, involving 63 children.
By the end of 2023, 1,200 children had been safely found through the AMBER Alert system across America.
The system is used widely throughout the U.S., with 82 plans in place to help recover children after they have been determined missing.
The AMBER Alert system stands for stands for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. It was created in 1996 following the abduction and murder of 9-year-old Amber Rene Hagerman in Texas.
That year, Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters worked with the local police to develop a warning system to find abducted children, and later other states and communities soon set up their own plans.
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